{"id":52,"date":"2024-06-19T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shrubbgames.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2024-06-27T05:27:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:27:59","slug":"vv-eekly-update-2-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shrubbgames.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"VV Eekly Update #2 &#8211; Juice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome back to VV Eekly Update. Number two is where patterns start forming, so let&#8217;s see where this one takes us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In preparation for creating a Steam page soon, I&#8217;ve been spending this entire week working on <em>juice<\/em>. <em>Juice <\/em>is a term that I recently just learned from the game dev community &#8211; it&#8217;s a little more advanced than just <em>polish<\/em>. It&#8217;s difficult to define, but you know it when you see it. Juice means that satisfying feeling games can give you when your actions feel responsive and meaningful. There&#8217;s a little bit of punch to your movement, a little bit of jazz to your actions, and everything feels alive when you interact with it. The world gives you a lot of oomph for your every key press!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-huge-font-size\">Juice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Are gifs worth a million words then? Let&#8217;s walk through the opening of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1907\" height=\"1015\" src=\"https:\/\/shrubbgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/chest-opening.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When chests open, they have a slight delay before opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1907\" height=\"1015\" src=\"https:\/\/shrubbgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/post-chest-light.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After choosing options from your chest, the light pops into life. Light rays strengthens and sun spots appear around the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1907\" height=\"1015\" src=\"https:\/\/shrubbgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/taking-damage.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking damage pushes your character around, and the screen gets darker as your health gets lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1907\" height=\"1015\" src=\"https:\/\/shrubbgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/dealing-damage.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dealing damage produces a small explosion at first and continues with a nice damage marker. The enemies also have a nice shadow on them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s just a small selection of the juice I&#8217;ve added to Vyn and Verdan so far. Stay tuned for more updates and, as always, feel free to juice comments into the Discord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to VV Eekly Update. Number two is where patterns start forming, so let&#8217;s see where this one takes us! In preparation for creating a Steam page soon, I&#8217;ve been spending this entire week working on juice. 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